Hello, it is great to see you there.

Welcome to your lesson today on Performing our own Poetry.

I'm Miss Sutherland and I'll be teaching you today.

I'm so excited for us to practise performing our very own poems and be so proud of the work that we've created.

Our learning outcome is to perform our own poems with confidence and use different performance techniques to convey emotion.

Here are our four key words for today's lesson.

The first one is pitch.

Pitch refers to the relative highness and lowness of voice when speaking.

The alarm of an ambulance is an example of a high pitch sound, whereas the roar of a lion is an example of a low pitched sound.

Our next key word is pace.

Pace refers to the speed at which you are saying the words when performing a poem so you can have a slow pace and a fast pace.

Tone, tone refers to the general mood or feeling, and you can have an upbeat or sad tone when you read your poem depending on what emotion you're trying to show.

And our last key term is body language.

Body language refers to the movements or positions of your body that show other people how you are feeling when you are speaking to them.

Or in this case, when you are performing your poem.

Pause the video and make a note of your four key words now.

Off you go.

Brilliant.

Let's go on to look at our learning cycles.

Our first learning cycle is about body language, posture and eye contact.

So in that learning cycle, we'll look at nonverbal communication and nonverbal communication when performing our poem is just as important as our verbal communication.

In other words, what we don't say is as important as what we do say.

In our next learning cycle, we'll look at pitch, pace and tone.

So we'll look at altering our pitch to be high or low, our pace to be fast or slow, and our tone to be conveying many different emotions.

And finally in the last learning cycle, we'll perform our very own poem and we'll get a chance to show off exactly what makes our home special to us.

So let's begin with talking about body language, posture, and eye contact.

In order to convey our emotions towards home in our poems, we need to consider how our body language, posture, and eye contact can show different emotions.

Body language refers to the movements or positions of your body that show other people how you are feeling.

So body language can relate to what we are doing with our hands, the way that we are facing, and the way in which we move around or stay still when we're talking.

Posture refers to the way someone holds themselves when they're seated or standing.

So if someone has a tool, an upright posture, that usually gets the audience to listen to them more because it shows their confidence.

And lastly, eye contact.

Eye contact refers to whether someone is looking directly into your eyes when they're speaking or not.

So there we have three important parts of nonverbal communication, body language, posture, and eye contact.

Now I want you to complete the following sentences to show that you understand the difference between body language, posture and eye contact.

Pause the video and complete those three sentences on the screen now, off you go.

Great focus.

The movements or positions of your body that show other people how you are feeling is called body language.

The way someone holds themselves when they're seated or standing is called posture.

And whether someone is looking directly into your eyes or not is called eye contact.

Body language, posture and eye contact are very important to consider when we perform our poems today.

Now I want you to discuss, what does making eye contact indicate? Why might someone avoid eye contact? So if we're looking at someone in the eyes as we're speaking, what does it show? And when might we choose not to look someone in the eye? Pause the video and discuss.

You might have said, if someone is making good eye contact with us, we think of them as being honest with us and good eye contact can make you seem confident and sure of yourself.

And if someone is not making eye contact with us, we might assume they are feeling guilty about something or maybe shy about something.

So that shows why it's really important to make good eye contact with your audience when you perform your poem.

Because having good eye contact is going to help the audience to trust you, is going to help you connect with the audience and is also going to help the audience perceive you as confident.

Let's move on to discuss what makes good body language when performing.

So what sort of body language and posture might we use to show confidence? And what body language and posture might show nervousness? Pause the video and discuss.

Here's what you may have said.

To show confidence we might use open body language through having open palms and upright posture and a smile.

To show nervousness, we might use closed body language through having crossed arms, fidgeting, and a hunched over posture.

So if you want to show your audience how confident you are and you want yourself to feel confident, you should use open body language and upright posture and smile.

You should avoid having crossed arms, fidgeting and a hunched over posture.

Now let's check your understanding of what we've discussed today.

Which two of the following would you use to show confidence? Pause the video and answer that question.

Off you go.

Well done if you said to show confidence you would use good eye contact and open body language.

So that means looking at the audience directly as you're speaking and also having your arms uncrossed and having your body facing the audience.

Now Izzy here is about to deliver her poem.

What does Izzy's body language indicate? So when you discuss, I want you to consider where is Izzy facing? What is her facial expression and what are her hands doing? Pause the video and get discussing.

Off you go.

You may have said Izzy's body language shows how relaxed and confident she is.

And she demonstrates that through the fact she's facing the audience and looking at them.

She's smiling, her hands are not in her pockets and her posture is upright rather than hunched.

Well done if you said any of those things.

Now on the screen, we actually have four brilliant tips for when we come to perform our own poems. So Izzy has helped us out quite a lot here.

We should face the audience, smile, have our hands out of our pockets, and have an upright posture when we're performing our poems. Now it's time to look at pitch, pace and tone when performing.

I want you to discuss when delivering your poem, why should you try to vary your voice throughout? Pause the video and discuss.

Let's go through what you may have said.

Different parts of our home evoke different emotions in us when we speak of them.

For example, speaking of our home could evoke feelings of nostalgia, joy, or excitement.

And our voice is an important part of showing these emotions.

If we delivered our poem in the same voice throughout, it wouldn't allow the audience to connect with what our home truly means to us.

We want our audience to know exactly how our home makes us feel.

So we must vary our voice when we are speaking to show that.

A speaker can vary the way they deliver their speech in the following three ways, through their pitch, which refers to the highness and lowness of their voice.

Through their pace, this refers to the speed at which they deliver their poem.

And through their tone, which refers to the attitude and emotion in one's voice.

So let's make sure we are always considering our pitch, pace and tone as we deliver the words in our poem.

Now I want to check our understanding of pitch, pace and tone.

So answer this question.

Variations in the highness and lowness of your voice in a speech are known as pitch, pace or tone.

Pause the video and answer that question.

Well done if you said variations in the highness and lowness of your voice in a speech or poem delivery are known as pitch.

We can have a high pitch or a low pitch.

Now I want you to discuss what might vary in your pitch mean for the tone of your poem, what might a high pitch indicate and what might a low pitch indicate? Pause the video and discuss.

You might have said, having a high pitch could indicate excitement about an aspect of home.

'Cause when we speak in a high pitch, it generally means we are quite excited about something.

A low pitch could indicate less excitement, so it could be used to show the reader parts of your home that you like less.

A low pitch may also indicate sadness associated with moving away from a place you loved.

A low pitch could also indicate missing home.

Well done if you said any of that.

I now want you to discuss what might varying the pace mean for the tone of your poem.

What might a fast pace indicate.

and what might a slow pace indicate? Pause the video and discuss.

You might have said speaking in a fast pace could indicate excitement or nervousness.

A fast pace could also show you're getting lost in a memory.

A slow pace might indicate sadness and a slow pace could also indicate you are feeling relaxed and in control, so you can use pace to reflect different feelings.

Now I want you to complete the following two sentences to check your understanding of what we've talked about so far.

In order to show excitement, we might use a blank pitch and a blank pace in our voice.

In order to show sadness, we might use a blank pitch and a blank pace in our voice, fill in the blanks to check your understanding of how we can use pitch and pace to convey emotion.

Pause the video and complete the sentences.

Let's go through what you may have said.

In order to show excitement, we might use a high pitch and a fast pace in our voice In order to show sadness, we might use a low pitch and a slow pace in our voice.

Well done on answering those two questions.

I hope you are more confident with how you can vary your pitch and your pace to better show emotion when you are performing your poems. Now I want you to read the introduction to your poem aloud and try to vary the pitch and pace.

Try to read through your poem with a high pitch in your voice, then a low pitch in your voice.

Read through with a fast pace and then a slow pace.

And consider how each reading affected the emotional tone of your poem.

Then you can decide which pitch and pace best suit the content of your poem.

Pause the video and practise reading your poem aloud now.

Off you go.

Well done for being brave enough to read your poem aloud, and I hope you enjoyed getting the chance to perform it.

Now I want you to reflect on the exercise you just completed.

Think about how did the variation in pitch and pace convey different emotions about home? Did it change the message of your poem? And how do think you'll use pitch and pace in the final delivery of your poem? Will you use a high pitch or a low pitch? Will you use a slow pace or a fast pace? Or will you use a combination of those different methods? Pause the video and reflect.

Brilliant work there.

I'm so excited because now it's time to move on to the final section of the lesson where we'll be performing our poems. This is a chance to show off all the hard work that we've put in, and it's our chance to show the audience what our home means to us.

Now I want you to discuss, many people feel nervous when it comes to speaking in public, you might feel the same.

How can we help ourselves to feel more comfortable? Pause the video and discuss.

Laura said, "We can practise reading our poem aloud to make sure we feel confident in what we're saying and how to deliver it." Alex says, "We can use open body language to trick our body into feeling relaxed before we start, through smiling, having upright posture and deep exhales." Both students have given us some really useful tips on how to make ourselves feel more comfortable with public speaking.

Ultimately, our ability to feel confident comes from within.

Now, which two of the following will help you feel more confident? Let's answer this question to check our understanding of how we can boost our own confidence in our performance.

Pause the video and answer that question.

Well done if you said deep breathing and using open body language such as smiling is going to help you feel more confident.

Now we can practise deep breathing by inhaling through our nose and feeling our belly expand and then exhaling through our mouths and feeling our belly deflate.

Try and breathe in for at least four seconds and breathe out for longer than that and that will help your body feel more relaxed.

Now it's time to perform your poem.

I hope you're excited and I hope you've taken on a lot of ideas about how to vary your pitch, pace, and also how to feel more confident.

As you deliver make sure, you speak loud enough for your audience to hear.

You vary your body language depending on the story you are telling.

You consider how you can use posture and eye contact to convey different emotions.

And you consider how you can vary your pitch and pace in order to change the tone of your poem.

Pause the video, perform your poem.

Don't forget to be yourself and show the audience exactly what you love about your home, off you go, Excellent performances.

I hope you are really proud of what you've created and I hope you are even more proud of being able to perform it in a confident way.

I want you now to self-assess your performance.

As you delivered did you, use body language to convey your feelings? Use posture and eye contact to convey emotion? And vary the pitch and pace of your voice to convey different tones? Pause the video and reflect upon your performance.

It doesn't matter if your performance did not meet all of those bullet points as long as you did your best and as long as you know what you need to improve for next time.

So pause the video and self-assess your performance.

Off you go.

Great job self-assessing and remember, we can always get better next time as long as we know what we want to improve on.

So here's what we've learned today.

Connecting with the audience when reading our poems can make our story more powerful.

We can use our body language, posture, and eye contact to convey certain emotions.

We can vary the pitch and pace of our voice to convey different emotions and influence the tone of our poem.

And we can trick ourselves into feeling more confident about our performance through deep breathing and smiling.

I hope you've enjoyed performing your poem today.

I really hope you feel confident in what you've produced and how you've performed it.

I'm sure your audience absolutely loved listening to your poem.

The most important thing in today's lesson was ensuring the audience can connect with your story and the audience can get a better insight into who you are.

Thank you so much for joining me in today's lesson.